Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...female quintet who indicated "rockets' red glare" spelling out "rockets" with their hands, touching two fingers to their lips ("red"), throwing open palms out from widened eyes ("glare"). Thus began New York's quietest convention in 51 years-the 17th Triennial of the National Association of the Deaf, which has not met in Manhattan since its first convention...
...persons from the U. S., Mexico and Europe attended the convention. Most of them were set apart by inability to speak or hear or both but their chief convention problem was universal-jobs. They were worried by a tendency among employers during Depression to refuse jobs to deaf persons. To refute the commonest excuse offered N. A. D.'s retiring President William Shaub of St Louis last week reported on a 40-State survey which showed that the compensation and liability laws of not a single State discriminate against the deaf...
Other delegates last week were eagerly awaiting the results of a current nation-wide survey by the U. S. Office of Education to locate all unemployed deaf persons, find jobs for them in CWA and PWA, check up on the success of deaf persons in various occupations...
Anything but placid these days are good Queen Wilhelmina's Netherlands. Sharpshooting soldiers and crunching tanks were needed fortnight ago to crush Communist riots at Amsterdam where eight died and an old deaf woman went down with two bullets in her back (TIME, July 16). Last week more threats of disturbance in Rotterdam caused a large section of the city to be clapped under a state of alarm. In the Crooswyk quarter, where Communists were expected to demonstrate, troops moved in under orders to "Shoot on sight anyone who appears in the streets.'' When it came time...
...cover as officers roared "Get off the streets!" An old woman in a black bonnet jaywalked directly in front. From mourning Her Majesty had to turn to machine-guns of a Dutch platoon. She went down with two bullets in her back. "Merciful Jesus!" cried a householder. "She was deaf...